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Today, I had big fluctuations in my emotions..
In the morning, I woke up still feeling ok. Later, I got very irritated. :( There's someone who caused a lot of inconvenience to my family, I feel very irritated. No drillings today because it's public holiday, but i still didn't manage to study in the morning. Wasted the morning away throwing tantrums. :(
I went for rehersal at 12pm. Nobody around. Took key and open door. I have the whole room for myself, so I made use of the opportunity to play piano. When people start to come, then people say bad things to me. Then I went to do stupid stuff.
I didn't expect the rehersal to take so long! the scheduled time is till 9pm! Thankfully they ended earlier. I'm so tired today.
I watched Penguin daddy last episode today too. I like the ending. Lifted my spirits somewhat.
Going to sleep soon. bleah..
Exam Happenings
I think I am addicted to blogging already (again).. I didn't blog yesterday because i was telling myself don't blog so much rubbish la! Then my hand is itching already.
I had a paper (EE3103 - Communications) today. It's at a classroom again! If you read my blog one year ago I talked about an unpleasent experience about an exam paper in a classroom. Invigillators talking loudly and phone keep ringing throughout the exam. In fact the paper I take today is a similar module as the one last year. That's why I don't feel so good having an exam in classrooms.
Today is rather happening as well. I met a friend to compare answers for past year paper before the exam starts. I think we got too engrossed and forgot the time. So we reached the exam venue rather late (like almost on the dot)..
So when I was scurrying into the classroom, one of the invigillator asked
"What's your seat number?""49!"
"49 is occupied. Are you sure you are at the right classroom?"I hurriedly took out my handphone and checked again.
"Oh, 42, but I'm at the right classroom."
"42 is occupied too, are you sure you are at the right classroom?"
"YES!"
"Go out and check again."Then I looked for my name at the list..
"42 is really my seat!" (pointing at my name)
"Is this your name?"
"yes yes yes.."And she slowly traced her finger along the row.. aiyo!
Then we have to go in to chase the person off my seat. lol.. What a scene. I think the person is an exchange student, some golden hair girl.
When she was rushing off she forgot to take her matric card with her. I also had to raise my hand to ask for another answer booklet because she has already written her name on it.. I saw some people already starting to answer questions, so I also started.
Suddenly an invigillator knock on my table and say
"Do not start writing yet.".. I was quite taken by surprised and I said
"Really?!".. Then some people around me started giggling. So embarrassing hor? After that I heard the
"Do not start writing" echoing around a few more times..
Finally, someone said
"Ok you may start writing now."Actually at this moment, I haven't really recovered from the state of shock, so I didn't start writing yet. Then the lecturer came to my seat and told me
"Next time you should come earlier so that you can listen to instructions." Then I passed him the previous student's matric card, and continue to remain in the daze. After a few seconds the lecturer came back to ask me to start writing!
I think I wasted the first 15 min settling down and get into the exam mood. Even struggled with simple differentiation in the first few minutes and got really irritated at myself. I think I spent 5 minutes to do a differentiation which can otherwise be done in 30 seconds. When I was halfway through Question 1, I looked at the time and realized to my horror that 25 minutes has passed! Got paranoid and rushed through the whole paper.
Because I was rushing through, effecively I attempted all the questions in 1 hour, and I'm left with another 1 hour to do the little parts I did not complete. Actually, for Section B and C, we are supposed to choose 1 question out of 2. When checking through my paper I felt that my answer for one of the questions was not good enough, so I went to do another question instead. When that question is about 80% done, I decided to stick to the previous question and cancelled everything i did for the past 20 min. Haiyo that 20 minutes could be better spent on refining and checking my other answers lor.
The lecturer was rather long winded in making annoucements during the exam too.
"Ok can I have your attention? Just 1 second. Alright? Please turn to Page 3. If you look at question 2, part a, you see that the part numbers are i, iii, iv. Please change them to i, ii, iii. Ok? I mean.. It is just a typographical error. Alright? Just change the numbers to i, ii, iii instead of i, iii, iv. You see, part a, part i is 4 marks, part ii is 4 marks, and part iii is 2 marks. If you look at part b, part i is 7 marks and part ii is 8 marks. If you add them all up, it will still add up to 25. So don't worry, it's still correct. Thank you." If it's a paper that I need to rush for time, I'll get irritated with his slow speech la. He pronounce ty-po-gra-phi-cal already more than 1 second. haha.. But since I liked that lecturer a lot and enjoyed all his lessons, the long-windedness did not irritate me at all. haha.
ok la anyway, I think this paper is not so easy compared to the past year papers. Some unexpected ulu topics came out too. I also think my choice of question for Section C is not very wise =S .. But this is one of my favourite modules so I still hope to get a decent grade out of it.
One paper left! I have rehersal tomorrow, and performance on Saturday 28 Nov 2009, at Victoria Concert Hall. I think it's going to be good, because there's those big masters coming down as guest performers too! I really liked this kind of performances because it gives me good exposure to the kind of music that is not commonly played in other Chinese Orchestra. Or rather, we don't get those big masters coming down as guest performers in school Chinese Orchestra. If you're interested you can ask me for complementary tickets ah (I doubt any reader will be interested though).. There's still a certificate presentation on 29 Nov. I really wish to give it a miss because this is still my exam period!! It's not so nice though...
Side track a bit. PSLE results are out now. I have 3 students taking PSLE this year. One kid did not do as well as expected, and I haven't received news from the other two kids. Haiz I also stressed over their results.
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Lovely Exam Period
I do not look forward to the end of exams.
Partly due to the nice exam schedule this sem, the exam period is considered to be one of the least stressful period in the semester. I have many things to worry about during the normal semester period, like project deadlines, lab report deadlines, tuitions, what to do for next tuitions, what songs to practise for guzheng, practise for guzheng sessions, some human factors, and other smaller matters like panicking when the bus takes so long to come, rushing for lessons and labs. All these things, to some extent, contribute to the stress factor.
While during the exam period, all I have to worry about is exams. It's not that stressful because I have more or less full control over my time and I would be most comfortable when I'm progressing at my own pace. Sunday is the favourite day because of the peace. Other days I'm more affected by the construction noise. Actually, if there's no construction noises, then this exam period would be quite perfect :P
Moreover, during exam period I can also shrink away from most other responsibilities, without really being deemed as irresponsible. For semester 1, my exam period do not coincide with my tuition kids' exam period, so it's a break from the usual hectic tuition schedules as well. Different story in semester 2 because the the exam period clashes. So now, I don't really have to worry about tuitions, don't have to go to school and go through the bus journey, temporarily don't have to worry about guzheng. Even the chinese orchestra practice, I also have the best excuse to use to skip practice. hahaha.. Not that I really need to skip practices to study, but because practices fall on Sunday, and Sunday has became the precious peaceful day for energy recharge, so I really hope to stay at home and do what I want on Sunday. Actually I feel quite guilty about it, because I haven't been going to their recent practices and I'm just going to play the new songs by sight-reading on the day of rehersal this Friday. They might think I am very big-shot lor.. oops..
Because of the all free up schedule everyday, I can take my time to eat everyday lor! I can take like 2 hours to eat breakfast, eat lunch when I feel like it and eat at snall-speed. I don't really keep track of time after my mother goes to work everyday. So I don't know how long I take to eat lunch and dinner. But it's definitely much slower than the speed I have to eat under normal circumstances. (Most people should know how slow I eat normally)..
One more good thing about exam period is that I always have a goal in mind. This makes me quite immune to the mood swings. When I am feeling sad over something, I can always tell myself, never mind study first, worry about that after exams.
I only have 2 papers left! So slack la hahaha..
Eat
Today after the exam I went out to eat with a few friends and I felt quite happy. I realized, I haven't been eating out with my friends this semester. In fact not even eating much in school with friends. Sometimes I just skip meals, or I just buy a random snack to eat in lecture or on the way to somewhere. Seldom do I sit down and eat a meal with friends this semester.
Probably partly due to the hectic schedule this semester because of the 3 projects. All my free time are just spent on projects. When everything is done for the day, then I go home. Moreover I'm also more stressed up than usual compared to the normal semesters due to the sheer amount of work for each projects. Working on group projects also generally takes up more time than individual projects due to the lack of control of the progress. And everyone is also so stressed up and I would have to agree with RW that projects really strains friendships. Sad thing right?
Today I'm supposed to come a little earlier before the exam to meet a friend to compare our answers for past year papers. 15 min before our meeting time, a 3rd person called and asked to join, lets call him H. Then soon after we sat down and discuss, I had a short argument with H. Actually I always argue with H, but I thought its harmless arguments, because normally both of us will just forget about it quite soon. But I think the stressful atmosphere all around us has an influence on our emotions and we got rather unhappy actually. Later H treated me transparantly. Then I went off to buy food. Probably due to the bad taste of the food, I got pretty uncomfortable after eating it. I thought I might need to vomit so I just found a random seat somewhere near the toilet and take a short rest before the exam, didn't go back to them. I think both of them must have thought that I went off because I'm angry. Actually I was really angry for a moment, but the anger only lasted 5 minutes. Not sure if H is still angry though. To think of it, i think me and H are rather childish.
After the exams, I should ask people out to talk over meals. Talking is the best way to maintain friendships. Not going to cinemas or kbox, because there's less interaction time in those activities.
